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Access to green space

Looking at the benefits of outdoor space, and who can access it

September 2024

  • Schoolchildren playing football on private school playing fields

    Private schools urged to share grounds to help UK children access green spaces

    Head of sports charity hails partnership that allows local people to use London independent school’s football pitch
  • East Mill Tor in Dartmoor national park

    England’s national parks overseen by ‘bloated’, mostly white male boards

    Exclusive: Campaigners call for overhaul as Guardian investigation shows nature rarely on agenda
  • An allotment

    ‘Better than medication’: prescribing nature works, project shows

    Scheme helping people in England connect with nature led to better mental health, report finds

August 2024

  • Jackie Austin, who is 75, sits in the ginnel garden built by residents of Ventnor Avenue. She is smiling broadly and wearing a blue t-shirt. Behind her, the plants are decorated with fairy lights.

    ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens

    Flowers, herbs and community spirit all flourishing in garden ginnels reclaimed from once-rubbish-strewn alleys
  • An aerial view of Milton Keynes

    Postwar new towns like Milton Keynes offer Labour a masterclass in planning

    Letters: Dr Alistair Fair and Ellie Brown respond to comments by the RIBA president, Muyiwa Oki, on Labour’s housebuilding plans. Plus Laura Steel on growing up in Washington, Tyne and Wear
  • Children clamber up logs on the Highfields Adventure Playground in Leicester

    End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

    Decade of austerity blamed for impending closure of inner-city spaces that provide meals and outdoor activities

July 2024

  • A low and brown-looking river flowing underneath two bridges, with office buildings or blocks of flats in the background

    From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

    New government faces massive task in repairing UK’s degraded environment and fighting climate crisis. Here’s what will be top of its in-tray

19 June 2024

  • Two young girls stand on the bonnet of a car parked on a residential street

    On These Magic Shores: exploring spaces for children’s play – in pictures

    Tamsyn Warde explores spaces in which children play in Hampshire, UK, examining how and where they play and where play belongs in their lives

18 June 2024

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

    Editorial: Huge disparities in state and private pupils’ access to outdoor physical education must be reduced
  • Damien Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight primary and nursery School in Brighton.

    ‘We have to be all things to our children’: how a school made sure pupils had time to play

    Brighton primary has worked with organisation to provide better quality time outside
  • A group of children play ring a roses outdoors during their school break

    Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn

    Exclusive: Medics say children with poor access to outdoor play at school at higher risk of developing lifelong health problems

17 June 2024

  • Steve Chalke in a school corridor

    Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block

  • Illustration of a school surrounded by walls and buildings

    Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools

  • Royal Hospital school, in Suffolk.

    Private schools in England should be made to share their green space, say campaigners

  • Robert Verkaik

    Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed down – state-school children don’t have a sporting chance

    Robert Verkaik

16 June 2024

  • Royal Hospital school, Holbrook.

    Beagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schools

    Guardian investigation reveals vast gap in outdoor space and lists the top 10 schools with the most of all
  • Winchester college’s science hall as seen from the banks of the River Itchen

    How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of land

    Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor

    • How the Guardian investigated green space inequality at English schools

    • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    • Revealed: students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils

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